ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

ACM offers the resources, access and tools to invent the future. No one has a larger global network of professional peers. No one has more exclusive content. No one presents more forward-looking events. Or confers more prestigious awards. Or provides a more comprehensive learning center.

For more than 60 years, the best and brightest minds in computing have come to ACM to meet, share ideas, publish their work and change the world. ACM's publications are among the most respected and highly cited in the field because of their longstanding focus on quality and their ability to attract pioneering thought leaders from both academia and industry.

ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) represent major areas of computing, addressing the interests of technical communities that drive innovation. SIGs offer a wealth of conferences, publications and activities focused on specific computing sub-disciplines. They enable members to share expertise, discovery and best practices.

ACM’s Professional and Student chapters worldwide serve as hubs of activity for ACM members and the computing community at large. They provide seminars, lectures, learning forums and networking opportunities with peers and experts across the computing spectrum.

ACM recognizes excellence through its eminent awards for technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology. It also names as Fellows and Distinguished Members those members who, in addition to professional accomplishments, have made significant contributions to ACM's mission.

ACM’s educational activities, conducted primarily through our Education Board and Council, range from the K-12 space (CSTA) and two-year programs to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-level education, and professional development for computing practitioners at every stage of their career...

ACM provides independent, nonpartisan, and technology-neutral research and resources to policy leaders, stakeholders, and the public about public policy issues, drawn from the deep technical expertise of the computing community.

ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. This philosophy permeates every level of ACM, reaching to the top echelons of leadership where members fill vital positions on the councils, boards and committees that govern the organization and raise the visibility of ACM worldwide.

The AI for Good Global Summit will identify practical applications of AI and supporting strategies to improve the quality and sustainability of life on our planet. The summit, the leading United Nations platform for dialogue on AI, will continue to formulate strategies to ensure trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technologies and equitable access to their benefits. Among the speakers are ACM President Vicki Hanson and 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Silvio Micali.

Yvonne Rogers is Professor of Interaction Design and Director of the Interaction Centre at University College London. She has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications, including journal articles, conference papers, and books. She was named a 2017 ACM Fellow for contributions to human-computer interaction and design of human-centered technology. “We have built a diversity of technologies and apps that are intended to facilitate—and sometimes force—people to collaborate.”

After an extensive two-year process, a joint task force led by the ACM, IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Security (AIS SIGSEC), and the International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee on Information Security Education (IFIP WG 11.8) has released a first-ever set of global curricular recommendations for post-secondary degree programs in cybersecurity education.

A recent Computing Research Association Summit on Technology and Jobs explored issues surrounding the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work. Leading technologists, economists, and policy experts offered their views on where technology is headed and what its impact may be, as well as on policy issues raised by these projections and possible responses. View 17 videos from this livestreamed event.

The white paper "When Computers Decide: European Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making" presents the views of the ACM Europe Policy Committee (EUACM) and Informatics Europe (IE) on the challenges posed by the increasing presence of Machine Learning and Automated Decision Making (ADM) systems in almost every aspect of modern human life.

ACM is sponsoring a series of practitioner-oriented workshops and conferences on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. The next event in the series will take place on May 22 in Toronto. A global summit, co-located with the AI for Good Summit, will take place May 15-17 in Geneva. Visit the website for additional workshops.

Register now for the next ACM Learning Center Webinar, "Computing for Disasters," presented live by Hadi Hariri, Leading the Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains, on March 9 at 12:00 PM ET. Erik Meijer, Founder and CEO at Applied Duality; ACM Queue Editorial Board, will moderate the Q&A following the talk. Leave questions now or anytime before the event on ACM's Discourse Page.

ACM Europe and Informatics Europe have collaborated on a report that builds on an earlier document, "Informatics Education in Europe: Are We All in the Same Boat?". The report, "Informatics for All: The Strategy," aims to establish Informatics as an essential discipline for all, a subject available at all levels throughout the educational system. The strategy is also summarized in a one-page document.

Regina Barzilay is the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She recently received a MacArthur Fellowship. “The reason we as humans can learn from a very few examples relates to the vast prior knowledge we have collected before solving a new task. It would be really powerful if our models for language understanding could have the same capacity.“

Erol Gelenbe is the Dennis Gabor Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He invented mathematical models including the G (Gelenbe)-Network and Random Neural Network models. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and IET (UK), and other scientific academies in Europe. “I am interested in … build[ing] intelligent search assistants that can help a user retrieve data that is tuned to her/his own needs, rather than data that responds primarily to the commercial needs of the search engines themselves.”

ACM is inviting applications for the position of Chief Executive Officer to serve as a leading figure in the computing field representing an elite organization that can speak on behalf of nearly 100,000 members worldwide. The CEO serves as the primary executive responsible for the formulation and implementation of ACM strategic direction, for representing ACM in the worldwide computing community, and for overall management of the affairs of the association. To apply, visit the ACM CEO Search page.

The ACM Future of Computing Academy is a new initiative created by ACM to support and foster the next generation of computing professionals. The Academy is a platform that enables the next generation of researchers, practitioners, educators and entrepreneurs to develop a coherent and influential voice that addresses challenging issues facing the field and society in general. Meet the men and women who make up the inaugural class of the ACM-FCA.

Proceedings of the ACM (PACM) is a journal series that launched in 2017. The series was created in recognition of the fact that conference-centric publishing disadvantages the CS community with respect to other scientific disciplines when competing with researchers from other disciplines for top science awards and career progression, and the fact that top ACM conferences have demonstrated high quality and high impact on the field. See PACMs on Programming Languages, Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, and HCI.

The past fiscal year included many forward-looking initiatives for ACM. The Future of Computing Academy was launched, providing a platform for the next generation of computing professionals to address pressing challenges faced by the industry. The Professional Ethics Committee began a two-year project to update its landmark Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. And ACM celebrated the 50th anniversary of the A.M. Turing Award with many inspiring international events. Learn about ACM's publications, conferences, public policy efforts, education initiatives, and more in the Annual Report.

USACM has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to accessibility by releasing a statement and set of principles on accessibility, usability, and digital inclusiveness. Promoting digital inclusiveness for people with disabilities, as well as policies, regulations, and guidelines that ensure fair access to the opportunities that arise from digital innovations, has been an ongoing priority for USACM. Read the news release.

Digital Platforms in the computing "cloud" are fundamental features of the digital revolution, entangled with what we term "intelligent tools." An abundance of computing power enabling generation and analysis of data on a scale never before imagined permits the reorganization/transformation of services and manufacturing. How will the increased movement of work to digital platforms provide real and rising incomes with reasonable levels of equality? In this video, John Zysman and Martin Kenney discuss "The Next Phase in the Digital Revolution: Intelligent Tools, Platforms, Growth, Employment," a Contributed Article in the February 2018 issue of Communications of the ACM.

ACM Queue’s “Research for Practice” is a must-read for practitioners who want to stay current with the latest advances in computing research. In this installment of RfP, titled "Toward a Network of Connected Things," Deepak Vasisht presents research papers that look at the rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) from theory to reality, and attempts to accelerate and monetize this trend. The rapid growth of the IoT has been fueled by years of research tackling several challenges, ranging from low-power networking to new sensor designs to security and privacy. This installment of RfP presents research papers that aim to make IoT deployments more pervasive and to enable users to gain more utility from existing deployments.

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The Association for Computing Machinery, a global scientific and educational organization representing the computing community, expresses concern over US President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order imposing suspension of visas to nationals of six countries.

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